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what the Comnaissioners Say -
Charges and Statements Concerning lt.
TIE COMMISSIONERS ASSERT THEIR WILLINGNESS 10
INVESTIGATE CHARGEs-gHn R1ApJUsTNENr OF
WATER RKNTs-FHB McRRAsB Put on LA1o. uocsEs
The QUESTION or TN ''DsaIvuy" or wA1n
BuLA
Commissioner Wheatley, when accostod to-day
by STAR reporter In reference to the charges
made at the meeting last night said that the
Commissioners believed that the Affairs Of the
water ofiice were administered efnctently and
honestly, but II there were any good reason SHOWN
for II, or any charge was made that appeared to
have any foundation, the Commissioners would
probe the matter to the bottom. MI. Cranes
statements, Mr.. Wheatley remarked, related
to the affairs OF the water once BE-
fore the present Commissioners entered
office, and before the present ofcials Of the water
once were in charge OF that ONCE. Mr.. Crane, he
nss snsTs naa sen
there was a defalcstion for which the present ad-
said, no concealment OF the fact OF a defaication
In the water Office when Nj. Lubey was water
registrar, discovered at the death OF Mr.. Lubey
to recover the amount. but nothing could be re-
covered, as MIR. Lubeys bond had not been kept
alive Commissioner Wheatiey thought that the
statements. II have not, he said. 'gone over hts
figures and statements carefully, but u they are
old central guard-hOuse, / do not think any
weight need be attached 70 them. He makes
IL appear that there has been some
fraud committed In not credtttnR the
water fund with the amount received at The sale
OF that property. The fact Is that Congress, BY
act OF March 3, 1881. authorized the sale OF the
property, and directed that the proceeds should
be used In the erection OF police station houses.
The money was used for the purpose prescribed,
Win ane Waer thu aund 10 was nct h
Office had nothing to do with the money collected.
The bills are made out in the water office, but the
money Is paid to the collector just as general taxes
are.
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Interior Department hA0yes.
The following official changes have been madein
the Department OF the Interior:
Indian school Superintendent appointed
Thos c. Bradford. Of Port Gibson, Miss, has been
appointed superintendent Of the Chilocco Indus.
trial School for Indians In the Indian Territory ct
salary OF 81 500 vice Walter 4. Branham, jr, re-
signed.
Pension Once designations: Mrs Harriet w.
Seabrook, OF South Carolina, 81 200; Edwin L.
Fevre OF Ohio 8, 400; ThOs. N. Connln, OF Penn
sylvania, s., 600.
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WAL PApEna
p. HANSON HISS CO. s15 18th st. NV.
WaA Papers " oil grades
Friezes and Ceiling Decorations
Special attention given TO Plain aud Decorative
Painting.
Esumates and designs submitted for all kinds Of In
terror Decoration and Furnishing An inspection Of
our goods IL respectfully solicited. ap9
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Talk ABOUT THE WRATHKR.-Fortunately, tho
prediction Of warmer weather for to-day was MOI
fulfilled. The thermometer at O'Clock this morn.
ing was two degrees lower than yesterday at the
one degree lower than yesterday. The indications
for the next tWenty-fOur hours are stationary
temperature, fair weather. and generally northeriy
WINDS
BIDS WERE opened to-day In the Bureau Of Pro
visions and Clothing for miscellaneous general
supplies for all the navy-yardS and stationA
There were over q hundred bidders. This WAS the
firrt opening OF bids under Secretary Whitney's
new plan OF consolidating all the naval supplies In
one bureau.
TIE EXAMINATION Of $40 CLERKS OF the Adjutant
Generals once represents loss to the Govern.
| me n a ri rlrf or
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4 NdANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
~ REAL ESTAT L AT BRIGHTWOOD. d. C.
BY virtue Of decree of the Supreme Court ola
the District Of Columbia passed If Equity cause X.}
No 10000, Docket %. on the goth day Of May. &1l
the undersigned Trustees will offer for sale
9t RuDic auction, in front of the promises. on
FRIDAY. the FIFTH (5THl DAY OF AUGUST. A. p.
1887, at HALF-PAST FIVE t5:3O) O'CLOCK p. NJ.
the following. described real estate, situate in the
county OF Washington. in the District of Columbia
being known and designated on the plat for said
the said District as Peters Mill Seat formerly the
property OF ,n Re n..:. Finkle near Bright
for the same At the northwest corner Of z SAID
p 1Ict to road "B;" thence 60 deg, 14lg
thence n SO deg = l6 psrchss to the place Of
less, improved by frame dwelling. house.
Terms OF sale One third % of the purchase money
In cash. one third % in year. and onet third 90
in two years from the day of sale all cash. at the
option of the PURCHASER the said deferred payments to
be secured by deed Of trust upon the said described
real estate and to draw interest at the rate Of
centum per annum The sum Of 800 will be required
Of the purchaser at the time Of SALE aud if the
chaser shall fail to comply with the terms Of sale
within ten QOl days after said sale the said Trustees
reserve the right to resell ut the risk aud cost OF the
defsulting purchaser:
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ID JRDENTOWN FEMALE COLLEGE
ID Charming location on the Delaware. Healthful,
homeike, thorough. and Christian. Superior facili-
ties in Music and Art. Manners morals, and health
carefully guarded. Forcatalogues address Rev. WN C,
BOWEN, A. NJ, Prest., Bordentown. n. j. jy6-1ho
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UNDERWRITERS.

f. sfiNDLER SON. UNDERTAKES.
LIB 7th st. NV.
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George E Weede has sold for g., 500, to r "
Walker and c. b. Thornton, lot . square 3O6-2
feet on street. between 18th and 18th streets
J. Mel. Caru@ has bought, for $ll 600, sub lot
square 82-52 by 81 feet on 2lst street, between
street and Virginia avenue northwestern Alvil
COX.
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The Courts.

EQUITY COURT-J0dge Merrick.
Yesterday, Harrington agt. Weighton; F. Jane
appointed guardian ad htem. Emmons agt
Thompson; Job Barnard appointed guardian az
ntem.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-05
Where the Day Begins.

According to the way in which this ar
rangement is now carried out, the first land
that the new day dawns upon is Easter
Island about 200 miles west of the coast of
Chile, South America. That is to say. the
I'd of July breaks here within few hours
OF the lst having broken on the American
coast to the east, and the two DAYS run on
alongside-the ID in Easter Island and
places west, the LIST in all places on the
American continent. We NAV therefore
realize this idea-that at 7:20 o'clock any
morning of our lives in Great Britain. the
next day Is commencing on the world, and
IS to be found at this little island in the Pa
citic Ocean, whence in due course it will
travel round to us. But to have thus the
start of the world is not an unmitigated
advantage to these islanders. Suppose one
OF them sails east to America, what is the
result? He will find that they keep the
day there under different date. and he
will have to reckon one day in his calen-
dar twice over to put himself right with
their notions. On the other hand. if an
American crosses from east TO west this
wonderful magic line where the day begins.
he will find the dates in this fresh part of
the world are one in advance of him, and
he must needs strike day out of his cal
endar to keep up with the times. This
fact was curiously illustrated in the case of
Magellan, the Portuguese Captain, who
sailed around the world from east to west
in 1922, and having crossed the magic line
of days birth" in his wanderings, his
calendar became of course a day in arrear.
The sailors were completely ignorant OF
this, and finding on landing at home that
their Sabbath was falling on Monday,
they accused one another of tampering
with the reckoning. 1t was not for some
time that the true explanation was dis
Chambers Journal.
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Chicken Cholera.

This is much more frequent disease
among fowls than supposed, and hence the
following treatment prescribed By DR.. |,
w. Mcdowell, of jacksonville, w. Va,
which appears in the Poultry Keeper, is
timely. lie says:
| have had some experience with that
dread of the poultry yard-cholera. |
managed it both last SUMNER and this on
the usual plan. [ did net use much effort
to cure the sick ones, only by way of ex-
perimenting, but my experiments were not
satisfying in their results at all. | was
better satisfied with efforts of prevention.
For this | whi.ewashed thoroughly, inside
and out, sprinkled the grounds freely and
frequently with sulphuric acid two ounces.
water three gallons. | put carbolic acid
in their drinking water, and also in their
soft feed, and sometimes | would vary by
giving in their soft feed mixture of sui
phur, cayenne pepper and ginger. fumi-
gated with sulphur, after all were on
their roost. | would burn sulphur in
the house, first closing up the doors
tightly, and would let it burn until all
were sneezing. Sometimes one or two
would fall from the roosts from the effects
of the fumes but they would soon rally.
repeated the fumigating two or three times
a week. After commencing the foregoing
plan very few of my birds took the cholera,
and a number Of them that had it recov-
cred. have more faith in carbolic acid
and sulphur fumes as preventives in
cholera than any means have yet used.
believe that numbers of my sick birds were
cured by these means. | lost but seven or
eight chicks out of flock of seventy five
over one-third of them had the cholera.
do not assert the above as the best plan of
prevention and cure, but l do assert it is
the best plan | have yet found, and have
done considerable experimenting with my
birds that were sick.
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Decimalizing Fne1ands Coinare.

Every Englishman should be congratu-
lated upon the prospect now open to him
of having his coinage at last reduced to a
decimal system and of getting rid of his
awkward !. s. d. 1t is hardly creditable to
the most advanced nation of the earth that
in regard to its unit in money it stands in
line with Egypt and the Ottoman Empire
alone, two nations which are generally re-
garded as being typical of lack OF all
progressive spirit. Every other great ma
ton of the world, and even the little king
dom like Greece, Roumania, Tunis, etc
have long age abandoned the mixed coin
age of their predecessors and have intro
duced the decimal system.
The decentralization of the coinage is
now accepted in England as q relief from
existing conditions and as a good thing
but slch change cannot be lightly made
in great commercial nation, and the
question of adjustment between the new
unit and the present coinage, the postage
and revenue stamps, licenses, taxes, duties.
etc, must be carefully considered, and it is
this question that is now being discussed.
To Americans, who n century ago adopt
ed decimal coinage, along with some
other ideas of La Republigae Francois, that
fortunately did not stick quite so we'll, It'll
interesting to note the plans proposed by
Englishmen for adjusting the many diff
culties presented. Some of these schemes
would seem to make confusion only worse
confounded in an attempt to retain in the
new coinage certain values for which there
is no existing coin, such as the guinea.
which is only useful in making out fee,
and in a genteel and elegant manner
swindling the client or patient out of so
many additional shillings. The names
suggested for the new coins sound very
awkward, and among these we note the
aur, double-aur, argent, Imperial, Nicto-
ria, royal, etc.
In the apparently best digested scheme
equivalent to a half-penny, is made the
bronze unit; "50-cents" sd, 10 cents
United States is the silver unit, and an
argent is the equal in value to i0d or a
French franc, or 20 cents United States
currency. In rendering accounts the
"cent" would be the unit and e3 IS. I'D.
would be represented by 1881 cents" or
1881 argent" = the half cent being
dropped. While this is an Improvement
upon present methods we can imagine that
some of the British shop-keepers win be
troubled for awhile with decidedly mixed
accounts. But as this system retains the
penny" or rather substitutes for ii " ten
cents" the reduction is not so bad to figure
out as some of the other schemes proposed,
which would make the shilling, the form
or the farthing the unit of value. We
would suggest, however, little more
democratic simplicity in naming the new
coins; "bob" is decidedly vulgar, but a
short monosyllabic word will be more pop
ular for the unit coin than longer term
and then let them halve it and quarter it
or double and quadruple it, as occasion
may demand, and both the English cabb,
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How Much a Man Eats.

1t has been calculated that on the aver
age, each man who attains the age of three
score and ten consumes during the course of
his life twenty wagon loads of food, solid
and liquid. At four tons to the wagon,
this would correspond to an average of
about a hundred ounces of food per day,
or say some one hundred and twenty
ounces per day during adult life, and about
eighty ounces during infancy and youth
Most modern doctors agree in regarding
one hundred and twenty ounces of food
per day, corresponding to five or six half
pints of liquid food, and seven or eight
pounds of solid food, as in excess of the
real daily requirements of healthy man
or woman.
Yet probably most of us take more than
this. in one way or another, during the
day. DR.. Lancaster, from an extensive
analysis of the dietary of soldiers, sailors,
prisoners, and the better paid classes OF
artisans and professional men in London,
found the average daily quantity of solid
and liquid food to be one hundred and
forty-three ounces. Doubtless many take
much less but unquestionably many take
much more than this. When some one
mentioned before Sydney Smith the
twenty wagon-loads of food calculated for
each mans allowance, he turned to Lord
Durham, who like himself was corpulent
land not without sufficient reason), with
the quaint remark, az think our wagons,
Durham, must be four-horsed ones" There
are members of the Londen Corporation, to
seek no further, whose wagons must be six
horsed ones, and well loaded at that
Richard A. Proctor in Cosmopolitan.
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Miss stanhope Takes a Duckinp,

A record in the history of stage realism
was undoubtedly scored last evening 1t
was at the Academy of Music in "The
Dark Secret" Miss Adelaide Stanhope
made it.
Modern melodrama has from time to
time introduced realisms of startling ma
ture. Heretofore, however, no leading lady
has been found willing for histrionic ext
gencies to allow herself TO be thrown into
real water, and Croton water at that. This
is what Miss Adelaide Stanhope did last
night.
At the end of act four the house was on
the tiptoe of expectation. The villain lay
in ambush. May Joyce soliloquized by
moonlight wherefore Martin Brooke came
not. Then there was rush In a minute
May Joyce went flying through space at
the hand of Stephen and landed on her
back in the Croton. She struck, making a
good solid splash, and no mistake about it.
Then shouts and whistling arose in all
parts of the house and people howled with
delight. And the louder the applause the
more she splashed. Then she did that
which few women can be found to do.
She went right out of sight under water.
A punt approached and from its bow sprang
brave Martin, Mr.. Frank Lane Perform
ing very graceful dive, he reappeared
with May Joyce Miss Adelaide Stanhope)
reclining picturesquely on his strong arm.
Then the audience fairly let themselves
go, and the varied expressions of applause
made the Academy ring again.
In response the curtain was lifted, and
the hero and heroine were once more re-
vealed, still in the water and still hanging
ON to the boat. Another call and the
couple appeared dripping in front of the
curtain.
In the earlier parts of the play Miss
Stanhope was evidently suffering from a
cold. What wonder! Imagine the re-
hearsals for such part
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The Hippopotamus.

Beginning with the exterior, the skin is
of enormous thickness and toughness
From it are made the terrible whips called
"sjamboks," a stroke of which will cut
groove IN a deal board. A large siambok
affords the only argument to which native
draught OK will listen, and smaller in
strument, called Familiarity "cowhide," is
used in lieu of our riding whips. As the
hippopotamus spends so much time in
water, the skin is perforated with a num-
Der of pores, through which exudes thick,
dark, oily secretion, which, like the fur of
the seal, otter, beaver, and other aquatic
animals, keeps the creature dry, even
when It is submerged. When, in July,
1919, Obaysh, the first hippopotamus ever
brought to England, was taken in the
Nile as youngster, its slippery skin en-
abled II to wriggle out of the arms of its
captor, and it was only secured by driving
a boathook into its hide, the scar remain
ing through the rest of its long life.
When, in May of the following year, it
ed in London, went to see it and in
advertently patted it, not knowing of the
oily secretion. Consequently a pair of
new kid gloves which i was wearing were
utterly spoiled.
1871 was born the first hippopotamus ever
produced in Europe As its mother did
not know how to manage it, the young
calf was taken away and fed artifcially
Taking it from its mother was most
perilous task, and, after most exciting
series of adventures, was achieved by
Scott, the man who was afterward so well
known as "Jumbo's" keeper The little
creature weighed about 100 pounds, but
kicked and screamed like an adult, while
its round, smooth body was so oily that
Scott could scarcely hold it. Now We
turn to the head. The eyes, ears and nos
trils are set nearly on the same plane, so
that the animal can sink itself entirely be-
low the surface and be able to perceive the
approach of foes by hearing, sight and
scent When it lies motionless and doz-
Ing in the water, it is naturally a little
lighter than corresponding bulk of
water, and so floats with only a little of
the back and the ears, eyes and nostrils
above the surface. But it often has to
sink 10 swim for some distance under
water. This necessity involves several
other peculiarities of structure.-Good
Ii'a-Gs
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Alflaria as a Coming Forage Plant

Alfilaria (Erodium circuldrium) is one OF
the best known forage ANIMALS west of the
range, although it is only recently that it
has begun to come into notice on this side.
Reports from the western part of Colorado
are that 1t has made its appearance there
on the ranges, and | remember seeing large
quantities of it in Arizona eight years
ago.
1t is hard to overestimate its value as a
pasture plant, where it once obtains a
good foothold, for all rangemen where it is
known bear testimony TO its excellence.
1t stands cold weather well, grows well in
damp locations, and fourishes on high,
dry land. 1t will make heavy hay, and
grow two feet high on rich soil out on the
dry uplands, cures on the stock the same
as gramma.
Horses, cattle and sheep eat it greedily,
and if there is patch of it anywhere on
the range that patch will be cleaned up
before the other grass around it is eaten.
Now that pastures are becoming assured
necessities, this "pin grass" will be found
to fill a long felt want for hardy, nutri
tious pasture plant. The seed is difficult
to gather, but once started the grass will
take care of itself and prove hard to sup
plant in general utility.
If your pastures can be irrigated it will
grow well, but if it cannot be watered the
alfilaria will grow and get there just the
same. Some steps should be taken by
those interested in obtaining good pastures
to investigate thoroughly the possibilities
and actualities of this hitherto uncared
for plant, and upon conviction use the
necessary method to secure its introduction
whatsoever works Understandings in the
reclamation of land nearly worthless will
find the little amount of brains he has ex
pended bring immense interest in the in
creased value of his outlay-Stock Grouer
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A Home of Our Own.

| write this from under my own vine
and fig tree, from beneath roof of my
own. j am a landed proprietor, a tax
payer, the owner of a bit OF ground and a
house. Ever since our marriage, seven
years ago, my wife and | have longed for
this day 10 come. We have saved and
scrimped," and hoped and prayed for it,
and at last il has come to pass. We have
paid out hundreds of dollars in rent. and
been hustled around in the nomadic man.
ner too common among young married peo-
pie in America. And when our two cher
ished Brussels carpets were being cut and
slashed into so reeklessIY, to fit the parlor
fully; "Well, its the last time they'll
now; that's one consolation" The home
We are so happy in is not all paid for, but
we see cur way clear to pay for it in time.
Young married people should start out in
life with the fixed determination Of put
ting a roof over their heads that they can
call their own; and this is not such very
hard thing to do in these days of loan
and building associations and cheap rates
of interest. Ny interest and taxes are not
much more than half the amount | have
been paying in rents. 1t is difficult to
define the feeling one has in Il home of
ones own. There is something in being a
Landlord proprietor" that tones one up
wonderfully, and adds dignity and earnest
ness to life. You literally feel that you
are somebody. l actually felt positive
pleasure in paving my taxes yesterday,
and felt sorry for the poor fellows who
haven't any taxes to pay. set out some
rose bushes last week, exulting in the
thought that they were mine, and neither
they nor l were subject to the whim of
some real estate agent, who could give us
thirty days notice. When | come home
from my office at night it IS home indeed
to me. And when one has children it is
more necessary than ever that there should
be a place for them that they can call
home; place that they can love and re-
member as home throughout all their after
lives. hope to see the children of my
eight-months old baby playing in this
house some day.-Good Housekeeping.